![]() That is what motor racing and driving fast is all about. I love and hate that place, it is haunting me in my dreams and I can’t get rid of it, it is fabulous. Jim Clark’s 63′ championship car, a Ferrari, a Ford, a Jag, a Honda, BMW, Aston Martin, a Lambo’, McLaren, Mercedes, Formula E car, a Rimac, and a Renault. I’ve tried getting a reasonable time on that track with just about everything you could think of and more. I can bang an old or new car around in a reasonable time on most of the tracks, all but the Nordschleife. Only one of those isn’t in Project Cars 3, but it does feature “The Green Hell” or the Nüburgring Nordschleife. I’m not talking about anything stupid, I’m talking about the likes of the Hockenhiemring which was in 2019, the Fuji speedway, Algarve international, Brands Hatch, Kyalami, Donington, Long Beach, Indianapolis, Watkins Glen, and many other tracks of years gone by. I love that game for what it is, but I feel time would have been better spent releasing out of season tracks, rather than star-spangled suits and pumpkin helmets. The reason I’m starting with a bit about the tracks is, I’ve recently done an article and a video on the problem I have with the F1 2020 microtransactions and in-game store. In France, there is this Azure Circuit thing, and it looks oddly familiar to this tax heaven I’m used to driving around called “ Monaco?” This is made stranger only by the real classics with their full names. The same differences can be said of some other tracks. My point is, I’ve never heard of this track “ Sākitto ,” which is odd as it is the Romanized spelling of the Japanese word for “Circuit.” As in Suzuka Sākitto (鈴鹿サーキット) from the F1 calendar, though with some strong differences to layout. ![]() I know, that is not normally the place to start when your game has cars in the title. I noticed this in the phrasing and options of the tracks. Project Cars 3 is a motoring enthusiast’s kind of racing game, a particular age of enthusiasts as well. My point is, I’m not the typical motoring enthusiast, I’d be hard-pressed to find anything interesting about a car other than driving it fast. Well, I don’t need pills to stimulate a woman with only feigned interest in sex, my hair isn’t grayer than that portrait of a married sex life, and I don’t have two kids that I’d watch be hit by a train with glee. Those are the driving enthusiasts right there, those are the men that understand what a V8 and V12 happen to be. I’m talking about a time when a 50-something Californian man could drive a convertible without his children from some angsty CW dreck saying “ Dad, you’re so embarrassing !” The man that can say “ I own a Jag ,” at an orgy with the smugness only a man of that time could hold. ![]() It is that or a woman with black leather fingerless gloves, a similar jacket with short sleeves, a Cruella de Vil cigarette holder, and a hairdo from the movie Grease. When you think of old fashioned driving, you are probably too young to think of brown leather driving gloves, a varsity jacket that’s two sizes too small and filled with cigarettes, both worn by a man with a thinning white beard and glasses.
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